"snide comment that my thing is better than your thing, then comment that my thing is not achievable"

By the way, you're going to learn a shitload more about wireless telephony from modern sources than you are from Marconi. Likewise a few others in that list. And being a famous name doesn't mean that your writings are digestible to those not already in your industry.

My mother sold encyclopaedia door-to-door briefly when I was a kid, and I read our set voraciously, every volume cover-to-cover. I really don't understand this dick-swinging competition where one encyclopaedia is considered to be some sort of godhead, and the next is considered to be a cesspit.

I mean hell, Wikipedia has already won the 'source of truth' argument against Britannica, with independent studies showing that the former had a lower error rate than the latter. That doesn't mean that Britannica is useless, but it does point out that a lot of misconceptions about Wikipedia are unfounded.